From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:10:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:09:50 -0400 Received: from fiona.siteprotect.com ([66.113.135.14]:10248 "HELO fiona.siteprotect.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 12:08:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDBEF8B.3010901@hostway.net> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:04:27 -0500 From: Nicholas Harring Reply-To: nharring@hostway.net Organization: Hostway Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver In-Reply-To: <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> <3CDBE7EB.9060605@mandrakesoft.com> <3CDBEC6A.9020600@hostway.net> <20020510.084948.99859388.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Obviously some form of driver is necessary to access the device, whether or not we're pushing fully formed IP packets or raw payload. Or is that a userland problem and I'm just not understanding the flow from userspace through the kernel and to the driver properly? Cheers, Nicholas Harring David S. Miller wrote: > From: Nicholas Harring > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500 > > And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? > > Demonstrate this. > > Putting the whole implementation on the cards firmware is feasible, > you don't need SMP. It's totally doable and Linux needs to see > none of the details. > > Franks a lot, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/